Category Archives: CPRIT

By: Charles Moore According to the Texas-based non-profit organization the Carson Leslie Foundation, each year around 16,000 children are diagnosed with cancer in the U.S., and one in every 285 Americans develops cancer before the age of twenty. The American Cancer...

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) is honoring the legacy of Carson Leslie and the Carson Leslie Foundation by naming one of the conference rooms in CPRIT’s new office in the William B. Travis State Office...

CPRIT Opens RFA For Individual Investigator Research Awards Targeting Childhood, Adolescent Cancer Researchers While cancer research is no doubt a heavily funded endeavor, the amount of funding, research, and commercial development is heavily weighted toward the treatment of adults...

I love the slightly over confident swagger of being a Texan & “I’ve got your back attitude” Carson & King George Strait! George, not associated with CPRIT (yet) but I couldn’t resist— CPRIT has swagger and the backs of children fighting cancer—...

Jennifer & Chuck Greenberg 4 days before Carson died, Clayton Kershaw heard about a boy who LOVED baseball. There wasn’t much to talk about; Clayton came over anyhow and put a BIG ‘ole smile on our boy’s face — THAT...

My boy lived his whole-short life in Dallas. With his confident swagger and a smile that would warm a room Carson captivated the hearts of many Dallasites including Emmitt Smith, Roger Staubach, Jessica Simpson, Michael Young, Jerry Jones and...